Abstract:
The Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) would like to announce the release of the 2nd edition of the Weather World 2010 (WW2010) Educational CD-ROM. This resource is being constructed to provide local access to the high-graphics version our entire collection of Internet-based educational resources developed through our participation in ... NSF's Collaborative Visualization Project (CoVis). Most of these resources are currently available in the Online Guides.

The CD-ROM includes the following features:

INSTRUCTIONAL MODULES - that use multimedia and the flexible nature of the web to enhance the impact of educational resources. These modules introduce and explain fundamental topics in Meteorology (Pressure, Severe Storms, El Niqo, Forecasting etc.), Remote Sensing (Radars and Satellites) and how some of these aspects fit into the Hydrologic Cycle.

NOTE: The only resources found online and not on the CD-ROM are the Tropical Cyclone tracker and 3-D VRML Hurricane. They will still be accessible online from the CD-ROM.

STUDENT PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES - (complete with answer keys) that provide teachers with a meaningful way of integrating the data and instructional resources into the classroom.

REAL-TIME WEATHER DATA - will also be accessible from selected pages of the CD-ROM to allow the user to apply what they've learned to current weather conditions. These pages will link to relevant weather products accessible through our WW2010 web server.

EFFICIENT NAVIGATION - that allows users to move between hundreds of pages with only a few clicks and return easily.

These resources will be accessible from the CD-ROM by using any standard web browser and the interface will be nearly identical to their online counterparts. Therefore the same CD-ROM can be used on a Macintosh or an PC.

STUDENT PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES - (complete with answer keys) that provide teachers with a meaningful way of integrating the data and instructional resources into the classroom.

REAL-TIME WEATHER DATA - will also be accessible from selected pages of the CD-ROM to allow the user to apply what they've learned to current weather conditions. These pages will link to relevant weather products accessible through our WW2010 web server.

Description:
Welcome to the first collection of CoVis-WW2010 student projects and activities in the atmospheric sciences. These resources were developed through our participation in NSF's Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) project which supports project-based learning of the sciences for grade levels 9-12. These resources have already been implemented in a number of CoVis classrooms and have been modified based upon student and teacher feedback.